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he's just an idiot who doesn't look for rules, or doesn't think they apply to him

Why do you always assume right away that people are idiots ? Maybe he ... mmmh ... well no, the rules are clearly stated ... or he does not know ... mmhh, neither, he made to the forum and cross-posted ... or maybe ... well no, OK, he's an idiot.

Students. Wish they would engage their brains at least once a month...

I'm being a grumpy old fart here, but it's appalling to me the attitude so many students seem to take now.

When I was a computer engineering major in the early 80's the resources I had for help with projects were few: my classmates, the textbook, and the instructor. My university had a first-class library with a lot of computing materials on hand, and even that wasn't always helpful.

Today's students have countless online resources to help them when they get stuck with a project. If I had that back when I was in school I would have thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

Yep. Now they have a search engine that can find what you need from a few trivial words (we had a card index which ... um ... didn't); a debugger that can change the code while it's running (we had guesses and logging statements, plus a 24 hour turnaround on card decks when I was at Uni).

And they don't use either of 'em.

Worse, they don't - mostly - seem interested in why it doesn't work, just what the fix is. Where has the interest, the passion, the "what happens if I push this?" attitude gone?

Where has the interest, the passion, the "what happens if I push this?" attitude gone?

I think it's still there, it's just that there are so many 'students' in the field because someone told them it was a way to make money. The ones with a genuine interest and/or knack are a smaller fraction now than 'back in the day'.

For a while now, I have noticed a few websites (the Washington Post one in particular that has gotten me steamed enough to post here ) where the URL textbox gets taken up completely by a box that shows the website owner, that is "Verified by Entrust" as per its tooltip. OK, this a good thing, but I find that if I want to use the browser sheet (i.e., currently showing that page) to show a different page by typing in the URL, I can't because that "verified" box completely covers the URL textbox, so I have no way to put the active cursor in there, and even if I could, I would be flying blind.

Now this could be rectified if I could widen the URL textbox, but I don't see a way to do it short of disabling some of my add-ons, which I most certainly do not wish to do (I would have no problem the add-on toolbuttons were shunted to the overflow toolbutton, but I don't see a way to do this).

Set this up on another Pi and you can have it monitor your network and report any issues to you.

Odered me a couple of Pi 3 B+ yesterday, turned up at work todayabout 19 hours after paying for the order. Hope to have a play with this and Pi Hole over the Christmas break during barbeque and drinking sessions.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

Oh gawd. You do realise you are going to end up barbecuing the Pi, don't you?

Not a chance. Aussies have special powers when it comes to barbewues and drinking, we can add any other task and still get ot all right.

Michael Martin
Australia

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

Pop over here: .NET Framework Discussion Boards[^] and spam report the spam messages? They are all stuck on three it seems and the sooner they go, the sooner the spam detector can learn from them. It's stopped him getting more of that format through, but the better the info, the less chance of similar rubbish getting in.